Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways,… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
Being a player that plays multiple positions, that's my mindset every single day because I don't have the luxury of just being… — Crystal Dunn Copy Share Image
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have… — Jean Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've… — Joe Penny Copy Share Image
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“There is an inverse relationship between the time spent purchasing luxury items such as cars and clothes and the time spent planning… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
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